Containarium Cloud vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. Containarium Cloud runs containers. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.

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Containarium Cloud

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

Containarium Cloud
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
RAM, per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Included
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
Paid plan from
Containarium Cloud: $20 / month
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
Billing
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
Isolation
Containarium Cloud: Container
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
Integrations
Containarium Cloud: MCP, Claude Code
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
RAM, per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Included
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
Storage
Containarium Cloud: Free
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Free tier
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Paid plan from
Containarium Cloud: $20 / month
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
Billing
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second

Limits

Max session
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Idle stop
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Containarium Cloud: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000

Platform

Isolation
Containarium Cloud: Container
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
GPU
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Snapshots
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Pause and resume
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:

Developer

SDKs
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Containarium Cloud: MCP, Claude Code
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
Containarium Cloud: Apache-2.0
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
BYOC
Containarium Cloud: Sales-led, on GCP or AWS
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Containarium Cloud
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Containarium Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use Claude Code.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need ISO 27001.

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You need pause and resume.

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